Posted on 01/06/2019 12:30:52 PM PST by jazusamo
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sat down with Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday to discuss the government shutdown and the status of negotiation talks. During the interview, Wallace blatantly asked Sanders how she knows terrorists are entering the United States through our southern border.
"Let's talk about the wall, because there is no question that there has been a big spike in the number of family units coming across the border. The president talks about terrorists potentially coming across the border and here is Secretary Homeland Security Nielsen. Take a look," Wallace said, going to a clip of Nielsen.
In the clip Nielsen said Customs and Border Protection has stopped around 300 Special Interest Aliens (SIAs) from coming to the United States through the southern border.
"Those are aliens who the intel community has identified as a concern," Nielsen said in the clip.
"But Special Interest Aliens are just people who come from countries that have ever produced a terrorist, not terrorists themselves and the State Department says, in their own words 'no credible evidence of any terrorist coming across the border from Mexico,'" Wallace said in reaction to Nielsen's comments.
“We know that, roughly, nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegallyand we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern border,” Sanders responded.
"Wait, wait, wait, " Wallace interrupted. "I know this statistic and wasn't sure if you were going to use it but I studied up on this. Do you know where those 4,000 people come, where they're captured? Airports."
"Not always, but certainly a large number," Sanders said.
"Airports. The State Department says there hasn't been any terrorists that they've found coming across the southern border," Wallace interrupted again.
"It's by air. It's by land. It's by sea," Sanders replied. "It's all of the above. But the one thing that you're forgetting is that the most vulnerable point of entry that we have into this country is our southern border and we have to protect it."
"They're not coming across the southern borders, Sarah. They're coming and being stopped at airports," Wallace refuted.
"They're coming in a number of ways. Certainly, I'm not disagreeing with you that they come through their airports," Sanders replied. "I'm saying by air, by land and by sea. And the more and more that our border becomes vulnerable and the less and less we spend time and money protecting it the more of an influx we're going to have, not just of terrorists, but of human traffickers, drug inflow and people wanting to do American citizens harm."
Chris Wallace turns on Sarah Sanders swapping #FictionForFacts
I never understood this argument.
CBP averaged almost 1000 apprehensions a day in FY18.
I agree that we need more security but saying the border is wide open really disses the CBP agents.
I never watch Fox News Sunday because of Wallace. He’s a phony and disgusting little worm.
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I never watch Fox News because of..........everybody.
“Wallace answers to Shep Smith. Stopped watching him long ago”
Shep still drooling for Don Lemon???
Dumb terrorists may be getting caught at airports... no argument there. If airport security is lax, more will enter via this method... even smart terrorists.
Airports need airport security.
Borders are a different animal. Smart terrorists come thru this way and don’t get caught because it is so porous. Since they don’t get caught, we don’t have numbers to “prove” they are getting thru; only that even the dumb ones are getting thru undetected.
Borders need border security.
Hello Chris Wallace!!! ANy border person or citizen hurt or killed by any illegal that crossed ANY border experienced terror. The alien was a terroist, and all are capable of making us US legal citizens feel uncomfortable which is a lower level of terror.
The more time we waste before building secure border the more blood and messed up lives rests on you Chris and all the media and political people over the last 4 or more decades that aided this ruin to the USA
I guess in leftists minds, rape and murder is just 'boys will be boys' stuff, huh.
That new Congresscritter Tlaib was born in Detroit. Her dad went from Palestinian in Israel to GUATEMALA to Detroit. Now we homegrow Palestinians. They’ve always gotten along well with their neighbors.
no. it’s no dis to border patrol, in reality 90% or more of the border is wide open. Thankfully they are able to apprehend so many illegals but the crossing ability is extremely wide open still.
Never any kind of favorite of mine, Chris Wallace’s bias has become blatant, and he himself, with his perpetual sly half-smile, has become insufferable.
Exactly what Jerry Brown just did...denied that their sanctuary state policies had anything to do with the officer who was just killed by an illegal. They deny the obvious and some people actually seem to believe them. I agree with David Mamet "In order to continue advancing their illogical arguments modern liberals have to pretend not to know things… ".
Chris Wallace alone is a good reason to stop watching Fox, but I thankfully I stopped 10 years ago for many other reasons. Why is Fox still considered a “right wing” news source? Because Hannity?
How about these terrorists with enough fentanyl to kill 26 million people?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/25/health/nebraska-fentanyl-bust/index.html
Chris needs to get his facts straight. Truth will smash his argument.
<< “The State Department says there hasn’t been any terrorists that they’ve found coming across the southern border,” Wallace interrupted again. >>
From the Center for Immigration Studies: https://cis.org/Report/Have-Terrorists-Crossed-Our-Border
Key findings:
- From only public realm reporting, 15 suspected terrorists have been apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, or en route, since 2001.
- The 15 terrorism-associated migrants who traveled to the U.S. southern border likely represent a significant under-count since most information reflecting such border-crossers resides in classified or protected government archives and intelligence databases.
- Affiliations included al-Shabbab, al-Ittihad al-Islamiya, Hezbollah, the Pakistani Taliban, ISIS, Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami Bangladesh, and the Tamil Tigers.
- At least five of the 15 were prosecuted for crimes in North American courts. One is currently under Canadian prosecution for multiple attempted murder counts. Of the four in the United States, one was prosecuted for lying to the FBI about terrorism involvement, one for asylum fraud, one for providing material support to a terrorist organization, and one for illegal entry, false statements, and passport mutilation.
MS-13 is a terrorist organization that crosses the border. Does anyone dispute it engages in terror?
The video you guy’s are watching though Townhall (Tony’s - 24/7 Eyes) is a cesspool of Nancy Pelosi worshipers.
I guess he thinks they will self identify.
Hezbollah which are helping the cartels run drugs. Hezbollah’s calling card are severed heads lined up in rows
I can’t watch that smirking chipmunk
He is the Media Party’s Minister of Propaganda and a dedicated anti-Trumper and does not want America safe from criminals drugs child sex traffickers and child rapists and child murders
Countless numbers of girls coming up through Mexico have been raped and many murdered also.
And a proponent of open borders
MS-13 is a terrorist group and many of them have come across the So. border and have been spotted in the carvan.
There is a woman that has worked in a Central American country and knows the idendifying tattoos that show a person is MS-13
She has also spent time with caravans and has identified many MS-13 members by their tattoos in the caravans
I don’t have the source handy as I found it on my phone and don’t know how to c/p with a phone.
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